Essays about: "JOB INSECURITy"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 23 essays containing the words JOB INSECURITy.

1. 16. Private Matters: The Effects of Privatization on Adult Mortality in the former Eastern Bloc

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomihögskolan; Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Joseph Molitoris; [2011]
   Keywords : Privatization; mortality; communism; Eastern Europe; Soviet Union; crisis; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The post-communist mortality crisis of the former Eastern Bloc was one of the largest peacetime mortality increases in modern history. Not without controversy, an increasingly large body of research has attributed this mortality surge to stress at the societal level. READ MORE

3. 17. THE PROS AND CONS OF WORKING IN TEMPORARY AGENCY WORK : CASE OF WORKER PERSPECTIVE INTHE SWEDISH LABOUR MARKET

   University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Dorcus Adongo; [2011]
   Keywords : Temporary Agency Work;

   Abstract : Purpose: This thesis aims at exploring some of the possibilities,opportunities and challenges within the temporary agency work sector from boththe regular and the temporary agency workers points of view within the Swedish labourmarket. Background: Temporary agency work sector in the past two decadeshas been a fast growing sector that has got many young people into the labourmarket. READ MORE

4. 18. Why grow lettuce? : agricultural production policies being implemented in Koinadugu District, West Africa

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Florence Conteh; [2011]
   Keywords : agriculture production; food security; policy;

   Abstract : "Continued failure to effectively implement policy wastes increasingly scares resources and undermines the prospects of sustainable development" (Brinkerhoff,1395)After a decade long civil war ravaged the country, Sierra Leone faced the challenge of rebuilding its broken infrastructure, social disconnect and food and health inadequacies. With approximately two thirds of the population residing in rural areas and engaged in subsistence level agricultural activity it is estimated that 70% of the total population lives below the poverty line. READ MORE

5. 19. Job insecurity, turnover intention and psychological distress: The mediating effect of job satisfaction and trust in management

   University essay from Psykologiska institutionen

   Author : Tom-Stian Vetting; [2010]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Research has produced compelling evidence that quantitative job insecurity is associated with negative consequences, and also suggests that short-term attitudinal reactions mediate the relationship between job insecurity and long-term reactions. The aim of this study was to investigate if both quantitative and qualitative job insecurity are related to short-term (job satisfaction and trust in management) and long-term (turnover intention and psychological distress) reactions, and if the short-term reactions mediate the relationships between the two dimensions of job insecurity and the long-term reactions. READ MORE

6. 20. To what extent do core self-evaluations and coping style influence the perception of job insecurity?

   University essay from Psykologiska institutionen

   Author : Lena Låstad; [2010]
   Keywords : job insecurity; core self-evaluations; coping;

   Abstract : Over the last few decades, increased flexibility and lack of stability in employment has made job insecurity a work stressor that keeps affecting more and more  employees. This study investigates to what extent core self-evaluations influence the appraisal of job insecurity in a Swedish sample of white-collar workers (N=425). READ MORE